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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「遷延稽留」.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「遷延稽留」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

It means delay or detention.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān yán jī liú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 yin4 kai1 lau4

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